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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Huntsmen Spiders (Sparassidae) » Heteropoda » Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda venatoria)
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Huntsman spider - Heteropoda venatoria - female
Copyright © 2006 Machele White

Huntsman spider - Heteropoda venatoria - Female
Lady Lake, Lake County, Florida, USA
January 20, 2006
Found this spider in a box that was in our metal building, I had taken it outside to go through it, and surprise! Female?
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Contributed by Machele White on 26 January, 2006 - 9:56am
Last updated 2 March, 2012 - 1:50pm

This is
actually a huntsman spider, Heteropoda venatoria.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 26 January, 2006 - 4:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks,
how can you tell the difference?
… Lynette Elliott, 26 January, 2006 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Different in
the yellowish/white clypeus (band below eyes), the eyes, carapace shape.
The running crab spiders are generally smaller, flatter, and different eye placement. The shape of the abdomen is more angled as well.
As Eric noted, huntsman are usually dull, but they do have pattern. It is not very pronounced most of the time in females, though.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 28 January, 2006 - 11:53am login or register to post comments

 
Question.
Not that I have seen lots of Heteropoda, but to my recollection they are pretty dull-looking, not dark and patterned like this specimen. Is there just a lot of variability, Jeff?
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 January, 2006 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

My guess
is you are right it is both a running crab and a female. Maybe someone else will know more.
… Lynette Elliott, 26 January, 2006 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Lynette.
… Machele White, 26 January, 2006 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

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